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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
By Bill Bryson
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history,...
The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of...
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Brontë, Baruch Hochman (Notes by)
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's...
Choke
By Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an...
A Wizard of Earthsea
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with...
Atonement
By Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and...
Watchmen
By Alan Moore , Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist)
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By Tom Stoppard, Henry Popkin (Consulting Editor)
Hamlet told from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, reality...
Thud!
By Terry Pratchett
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.But if he...
Dolores Claiborne
By Stephen King
"Everything I did, I did for love..."For thirty years, folks on Little Tall Island have been waiting to find out just what happened on the eerie dark...